So Kevin Drum and Josh Marshall think the press is giving Kerry a bum rap on Iraq.
Quoth Marshall:
Sometimes in baseball a batter decides to take a pitch. He's decided in advance that he's not going to swing no matter what comes down the pike. But in most cases, when a batter steps up to the plate, he doesn't decide whether he's going to swing until he sees the pitch. Only an idiot decides in advance not knowing what he's going to face. And yet this is roughly what the Bush camp says was the only reasonable, or I suppose manly, approach to the Iraq war.I see the war decision in very similar terms to this baseball analogy. Voting for the war resolution was not remotely the same thing as going to war at the first possible opportunity.
Of course it was, for the very simple reason that (still quoting Marshall):
Bush went to the plate knowing he was going to swing at whatever pitch he got.
There are then two possible explanations for Kerry's vote:
1) He's so stupid that he had no idea that Bush was hell-bent on attacking Iraq, despite all the available evidence pointing in that direction.
2) He knew damn well that Bush was going to go to war regardless, but he was too chickenshit to take a stand.
So which is it -- is Kerry a moron or a coward?
Posted by Michael at August 16, 2004 03:36 AM | TrackBack